English Poetic Diction Theory Since the Renaissance
Emerson R. Marks
432 pages / 6 x 9
1998
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Taming
the Chaos English Poetic Diction Theory Since the Renaissance Emerson R. Marks |
What is the nature of poetic language? This topic has been the subject of debate among scholars, poets, and critics for centuries, and continues to be a notoriously thorny issue today. Taming the Chaos traces this subject, for the first time, from the Renaissance through the present in chapters on Elizabethan times, Neoclassicism, Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Romantic and Victorian periods, Matthew Arnold, Pater, Eliot, and others. In an effort to define the mysterious and attractive power of poetic discourse, Emerson Marks undertakes a comparative evaluative exposition of successive attempts to explain the phenomenon. He presents these attempts chronologically, and then distills crucial and therefore recurrent themes. Underlying them all is the intractable nature of poetry's verbal substance. A long-lasting and ambitious study of poetic language, Taming the Chaos examines the main attempts by critics since the Renaissance to elucidate the crucial problem of poetic language. | "This will be the authoritative work on a subject of wide interest: unrivaled in its combination of breadth of learning with critical insight and lucidity of expression." —W. Jackson Bate, Harvard University | |||||||||||||
| $44.95s / ISBN 0-8143-2698-6 432 pages / 6 x 9 1998 |
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